Steve Propes is a Long Beach, California record collector, disc jockey, and writer whose oldies/rhythm and blues radio show on KLON throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. had a great effect on the classic R&B revival.

Books

Those Oldies But Goodies: A Guide to 50's Record Collecting 1978 What Was the First Rock 'n' Roll Record (with Jim Dawson, Faber and Faber, 1992 Merry Christmas Baby: Holiday Music From Bing to Sting (with Dave Marsh, Little, Brown & Company, 1993 45 RPM: The History, Heroes & Villains of a Pop Music Revolution (with Jim Dawson, Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard, 2003